With a unique focus on message, method, and medium, Convergences asks students to think about what, why, and how we communicate. What's the best way to tell the story of your life, through words or pictures? How would the Gettysburg Address be received if Lincoln had delivered it on PowerPoint? Why did Benetton design a marketing campaign around death row inmates? Convergences asks these questions, among others. Convergences has been put together to help students explore the many different kinds of compositions that surround them. Clusters bring together texts from multiple media and genres -- essays, advertisements, the Web, news, comics, television, and film, among others -- with a methodology to read them.

Convergences: Method, Message, Medium [Text Only]

Reference

Robert Atwan

Words, Language & Grammar

VHPS; St. Martin

One Hundred Major Modern Writers

Macmillan Library Reference

The Harper American Literature

Literature & Fiction

Donald McQuade

Helen Vendler

martha-banta

Justin Kaplan

David Minter

History & Criticism

Harper&Row

Popular Writing in America: The Interaction of Style and Audience: Advertising, Newspapers, Nagazines, Best Sellers, Classics

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Oxford University Press

Ten on Ten

St.Martin's Press

Like its best-selling predecessors, the fifth edition of Our Times is built entirely around very contemporary selections from a wide variety of very recent periodicals on intriguing topics of very current interest -- more than ninety percent published since 1996 . With a new profile of the Class of 2000 based on UCLA's national survey of college freshmen, the fifth edition of Our Times does even more to get students talking about where they stand in relation to their peers as well as to professional writers. And with plenty of selections that can be used as models and an even stronger focus on writing in the unique apparatus, Our Times shows students how to turn lively discussion about personal and public issues into effective writing.

Our Times: Readings from Recent Periodicals

Bedford/St.Martins

The Writer's Presence: A Pool of Reading

Donald MeQUADE

America Now

Mary McAleer Balkun

St. Martin's Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.

<p>- A new kind of reader highlights the way verbal and visual texts speak to each other. Essays, photographs, Web sites, poems, cartoons, stories, billboards, advertisements, paintings, monuments, maps, and album covers are grouped in clusters that cross genre and medium -- a related poster, web site, essay, and poem, for example. This presentation helps students map out relationships between verbal and visual messages. This is the reader for those instructors who want their students to read and write critically about all the texts they encounter.<BR>- Six familiar themes -- with a twist. Staging Portraits outlines the way verbal and visual portraits reveal certain details and hide others. Telling Secrets asks why we love to tell secrets, and what our secrets tell about us. Shaping spaces explores what it means to think spatially -- whether the space is a piece of paper, our room, or the World Wide Web. Making History traces how describing the past often means making it up. Dividing Lines shows how different groups of people draw lines between us and them. Redefining Media sketches out the evolving relationship between message, method, and medium.<BR>- Convergences introduces a new methodology for reading a wide range of verbal and visual texts, helping students to ask what, where, when, how, and why as they read and write. Why does it matter that the message be tailored for the medium? Who is this advertisement aimed at, and what is it selling? Convergences pre</p>

Resources for Teaching: CONVERGENCES: Message; Method; Medium

Ben McCorkle

Bedford Books/ St. Martin's Press

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